Saturday, October 25, 2008
relative poverty
i may be fortunate enough to have a family who can support basic materialistic comforts but being the ever unsatisfied human being, but sometimes i do despair at my state of "poverty" especially when compared to people around me. "compare" is the root of all evil. however, it is inevitable.
in a bid to save money, the toilet's shower head has not been changed since ten years ago. despite incessant complains from me that the connection pipe kept dropping and efforts by me to source for cheaper alternatives and printing out a brochure from my workplace which has a special discount for heater. the offer ends by this month anyway.
the tremendous delay taken to order the "Time" magazine for my reading pleasures and an attempt to rescue my already weak linguistic ability. lack of credit card and cheques pose a challenge to the payment process, not to mention i have to source for the cheapest package possible. "if you buy it, make sure you read it" (in chinese) kept ringing in my head. i'm not the disciplined type that would read. in actual fact i think i would have spent the reading time chatting on msn messenger and checking out facebook. god seems to play a fool on me. a month after i signed up for a one year subscription, i received a email regarding a promotion package that offers a 67% discount for a one-year subscription of time and fortune combo.
refusal to buy newspapers to read at home because the prices of newspapers are too steep.
although this may not be the perfect example, but i think it indirectly shows some possible reason for the a phenomenom mentioned in the papers of how more than half of this year's PSC scholars live in private housing. only families that have the financial capability and education would buy subscribe time magazine and newspapers to read at home. sure, libraries provide them for free, but certainly it would be more accessible and one would encouraged to read more if these are readily available at home. and definitely trained them to be more mature and eloquent; what people look for in scholars.
ok i'm certainly not in the right state of mind while typing this and as usual my train of thought is hay-wired and my ability to express myself in words is just abysmal.
sigh.
in a bid to save money, the toilet's shower head has not been changed since ten years ago. despite incessant complains from me that the connection pipe kept dropping and efforts by me to source for cheaper alternatives and printing out a brochure from my workplace which has a special discount for heater. the offer ends by this month anyway.
the tremendous delay taken to order the "Time" magazine for my reading pleasures and an attempt to rescue my already weak linguistic ability. lack of credit card and cheques pose a challenge to the payment process, not to mention i have to source for the cheapest package possible. "if you buy it, make sure you read it" (in chinese) kept ringing in my head. i'm not the disciplined type that would read. in actual fact i think i would have spent the reading time chatting on msn messenger and checking out facebook. god seems to play a fool on me. a month after i signed up for a one year subscription, i received a email regarding a promotion package that offers a 67% discount for a one-year subscription of time and fortune combo.
refusal to buy newspapers to read at home because the prices of newspapers are too steep.
although this may not be the perfect example, but i think it indirectly shows some possible reason for the a phenomenom mentioned in the papers of how more than half of this year's PSC scholars live in private housing. only families that have the financial capability and education would buy subscribe time magazine and newspapers to read at home. sure, libraries provide them for free, but certainly it would be more accessible and one would encouraged to read more if these are readily available at home. and definitely trained them to be more mature and eloquent; what people look for in scholars.
ok i'm certainly not in the right state of mind while typing this and as usual my train of thought is hay-wired and my ability to express myself in words is just abysmal.
sigh.
# posted by yichun : 10/25/2008 11:16:00 PM
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